Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

SingleSue

Pyxis wrote: »

Shame York is off the list.
I thought it had the best of both worlds....... A campus environment, but within walking distance of the Cathedral/The Shambles etc.

But unfortunately not really the course he wants to do, too much of unrelated stuff on it almost like they have lumped everything together thinking that those who want to design games would also want to make TV programmes.

The campus was perfect, the city perfect but the course was very far from perfect.

PasturesNew

Somewhere, wish I'd bookmarked it, there's a website when you can click the top of a hill and click the bottom - and it tells you the gradient between the two points. Intended for cyclists I think so they can see how bad/steep any hill is on their planned cycle trip.

"Steep" is only meaningful when you can compare it to something else.

Last week I walked down a steep pathway ... it started off so bad my toes were pressing the end of my footwear. I "came over a bit queer" at the bottom and had to walk back up .... while being goaded for being slow. I genuinely felt that, maybe, right then, I'd actually have a seizure. I had to stop a few times and pretend to admire the views. Then at the top I had to have a proper sit down on a chair while my life flashed before my eyes. I was thinking then "this is the very last time you'll visit this place, ever"

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Found out the asking price for the (not built yet) new builds identical to mine, next door, by the same developer. £265-275k. I was wondering how much they'd be asking. The half-details say ready 2017.

3-bed EoT is £305k.

That's the same-ish as around here from when I last looked, and I think these prices are completely ridiculous.

I was speaking to someone about it yesterday, and how a low income couple can afford to save deposit/buy a £200k starter house is beyond me.

PasturesNew

In my BRMA, LHA for a 2-bed would be £650/month. 3-bed £812/month.

These houses are advertised to rent at 2-bed £875/month, 3-bed £1050.

With the new builds, they're advertised with that standard wording mentioning "investors" and then you wonder how the figures would stack up.

If you're paying £275k for a 2-bed and £305k for a 3-bed ... and putting down a big deposit, plus having to have X% of mortgage:rent ratio ... it'd be a bit of a strange investor that could get the sums to fit I'd have thought.

The current landlords in my bit bought at about £175k, with old/smaller deposits and easy-money-mortgages.

Having said that, the last one sold was as a 2nd home for somebody - so maybe the next lot will end up as holiday homes for wealthier people. Just have to wait and see who/what turns up.

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

In my BRMA, LHA for a 2-bed would be £650/month. 3-bed £812/month.

These houses are advertised to rent at 2-bed £875/month, 3-bed £1050.

With the new builds, they're advertised with that standard wording mentioning "investors" and then you wonder how the figures would stack up.

If you're paying £275k for a 2-bed and £305k for a 3-bed ... and putting down a big deposit, plus having to have X% of mortgage:rent ratio ... it'd be a bit of a strange investor that could get the sums to fit I'd have thought.

The current landlords in my bit bought at about £175k, with old/smaller deposits and easy-money-mortgages.

Having said that, the last one sold was as a 2nd home for somebody - so maybe the next lot will end up as holiday homes for wealthier people. Just have to wait and see who/what turns up.

£716 and £860 here.

My mother has one of the cheapest 3 bed properties on the market, and pays £925, and would probably be paying in excess of £1000 now (although the landlord wants her to stay, as working professional, no kids at home, property is looked after etc etc)

House prices are ridiculous = rents are ridiculous = potential for increased homelessness. The ironic thing, is we worked out homelessness costs the govt around £500/person/week in increased healthcare and etc over a longer period, when surely it'd just be cheaper to pay a little more for accommodation in the first place.

Pyxis

At Last! Photobucket would load my album!


The original table....





The renovated table.....

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

At Last! Photobucket would load my album!

For me I just got two error messages that the site couldn't be reached and the connection was reset.

Maybe later it'll work.

EDIT:
Ah, 2nd one's loaded now. Well, loadING - PB's always been a deathly slow site for me to ever load.

EDIT 2: Still waiting for number 2 to load .... all I've got is the surrounding page and that circular moving thing that indicates "something might occur here if you're lucky and wait long enough".

EDIT 3: Number 2's finished now. I can see that one. Just waiting for the "before" image.

As a rule .... I ignore links to photobucket, but couldn't ignore this one as it was "to me", so I have to reply .... and to do that I have to see.

EDIT 4: Ah, there it is. I think I might've preferred it if it were just sanded and waxed....

PasturesNew

2 free breakfasts and food shopping fail.

I'm rubbish at food shopping. When I go into a shop there's so much choice, it's overwhelming, so I'll often walk out with a simple pack of crumpets ....

New discount shop opened, so I went off .... it was busy so I just concentrated on what I KNEW I wanted to try - and grabbed one pack of crumpets and one "Indian meal bag". Outside they were giving away free sausage and/or bacon baps, so I had one.

Got home and thought "you could've tried harder really". So I went back. This time I had the free breakfast before I went in - TWO sausages in the bread roll this time..... win.

I walked around and there was lots of great sounding food. That's nice, could have that, that's nice, could have that, or you could have that, or that, what about that, that's nice, nice, nice, nice, could have that, looks nice ...... and at the end of each aisle the basket was still empty. I did the entire store. The whole shop. Then walked out with one tin of rice pudding, 15p.



Too much choice. They do have a great and varied range of great sounding food at good prices though .... but I need some decision-making skills really.

SingleSue

Youngest has the same problem, it's why we started looking at catered halls as youngest had threatened to just get a couple of boxes of cereal a week and be done with it.

He finds shops confusing and overwhelming.

Pyxis

SingleSue wrote: »

Youngest has the same problem, it's why we started looking at catered halls as youngest had threatened to just get a couple of boxes of cereal a week and be done with it.

He finds shops confusing and overwhelming.

That's where supermarket-type shops might be better for him, because they have aisles.

Break the shop down into chunks, with each aisle being a chunk.
Break the aisle down into left side and right side.
Break a side down into strides.....look at the shelves in front of you, then take one stride down and look at that section of shelves, and so on. (Or you can go along shelf by shelf if that's better).

(I have ADHD, and often have to chunk stuff, otherwise it all just swims in front of me! Which is why I often miss signs, as they are all either swimming, or I over-focus on a narrow beam and miss them!

NB......don't worry about my driving.......I've learned to scan while driving, and if for some reason there's a lot of stuff, like on a busy High Road on market day, I slow right down! )


Department stores with randomly-placed rails and counters are more difficult, because they are harder to chunk.

Boots the chemist used to be easy, but for some reason I find their 'horizontal' aisle configurations (going across the store) harder than their former 'vertical' configurations (going down the length of the store), IYSWIM.
Strange, as they're still chunkable.